Professor Stefano Rodotà delivers a guest lecture on 'Reinventing the Body' at Kent Law School, on Tuesday 2 February.
Hosted by KLS’s Centre for Critical Thought, the lecture will explore the concept of the body and who owns it. More specifically, Professor Rodotà will ask if the body is still the product of biology or whether it is more the result of multiple interventions made possible by techno-science.
He states that during the last few decades the body has been reinvented and with the convergence of various technologies it is increasingly seen as a nano-bio-info-neuro machine.
Professor Rodotà examines the inevitable impact these changes have on the legal system, raising questions of equality, the limits of the self-determination and of the commodification of the body.
Professor Rodotà, is a distinguished Italian legal scholar and politician. Currently he is Professor of Civil Law at the Sapienza University of Rome, and is a former Italian presidential candidate in the 2013 elections. He is also Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and Visiting Scholar at Stanford School of Law, and has held numerous political positions in Italy and Europe.
The lecture will be held in Darwin Lecture Theatre 2 at the University’s Canterbury campus. It is free and open to all.